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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Intervention.
(b) Closing their eyes.
(c) Committment.
(d) Feeling.

2. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Nihilist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Roptist.
(d) Surrealist.

3. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Modern.
(c) Positive.
(d) Obscure.

4. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Color.
(b) Scale.
(c) Value.
(d) Reality.

5. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) Wild ride.
(b) Power trip.
(c) Death trip.
(d) True ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

2. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."

3. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

4. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

5. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

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